Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.

I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect Spiderman.

There are about 30 words around you all the time, like 'thread' or 'exit.'

I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head.

If you wanna talk about influence, man, then you've got to realize that influence is not influence. It's simply someone's idea going through my new mind.

Fire will attract more attention than any other cry for help.

If I'm away from painting for a week, I get bored.